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An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

The oldest natural aquarium in the United Kingdom.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

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America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.